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  • JSTARS provides ground assessment during joint hurricane exercise

    The E-8C Joint STARS, relayed real-time geographic data to ground personnel to safely evacuate citizens during a simulated hurricane in the Vigilant Guard exercise in March.Flying over the skies of South Carolina, JSTARS unique wide-area, all-weather, surface surveillance radar and on-board

  • 116th Medical Group promotes first female Chief Master Sgt.

    The 116th Air Control Wing inducted their first female Chief Master Sgt. to the MDG here, June 21. Chief Master Sgt. Cynthia Haines was promoted to chief by Colonel Muriel Herman, the first female Colonel to hold a commander position in the 116th MDG. "It's so humbling; it's really an honor to wear

  • 116th Security Forces turn up the heat in North Georgia

    TUNNEL HILL, Ga.--Heavy machine gun fire, rifle and pistol competitions, counter insurgency operations and military operation urban training and were the order of business for the Georgia Air National Guard's 116th Security Forces Squadron as they completed 10 days of annual training at the Catoosa

  • Georgia Guard members 'Always Ready, Always There'

    "The Georgia National Guard's 'talented' Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen remains equipped and trained to assist their community and state, any time," said Chief Master Sgt. David Fite a senior enlisted manager with the 116th Air Control Wing here.The wing's state active duty missions in response to the

  • Team JSTARS surpasses 100,000 flying hours supporting COCOMS

    Team JSTARS, set a major milestone Thursday when they surpassed 100,000-flying hours in support of combatant commanders across the globe during a mission, flying out of Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The joint-force unit comprised of the Georgia Air National Guard's 116th Air Control Wing, and

  • GA Air Guard civil engineers train for combat operations at Silver Flag

    Thirty-four Georgia Air National Guardsmen from the 116th Civil Engineering Squadron, capped off a successful week of intensive contingency training Thursday at Silver Flag located at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.Deployed to a simulated bare-base combat environment, the Prime Base Engineer Emergency

  • Guardsman assists unconscious women in accident

    A Georgia Air National Guardsman traveling to work at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., March 27, came upon a two car accident just south of the base and took quick action to assist an unconscious woman.Senior Master Sgt. William Greenway, superintendent of the 116th Security Forces Squadron, along with

  • 116th ACW: one of 12 ANG units to receive state-of-art mobile kitchen

    The 116th Air Control Wing, part of the Georgia Air National Guard, was chosen as one of 12 Air National Guard units to receive the new disaster relief mobile kitchen, or DRMK, in April, replacing their current mobile kitchen trailer."The capabilities of the DRMK will allow us to better react and

  • Team JSTARS flexes at Red Flag

    When it comes to realistic air-to-air combat training, Air Force members who live and breathe aboard some of the world's most advanced military weapon systems got a chance last month to test some of their skills. Red Flag exercises were conducted in January above the skies of Nellis Air Force Base's